Tasmanian Times
Economy
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Surviving, even thriving, in spite of Labor?
David Killick, Mercury: TASMANIA’S economy is weathering the global downturn well, says Access Economics. But it warns the State faces significant long-term...
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878Totally Against Plantations: Who’s misleading who?
he fantasy that our rampant forestry industries will be happy to convert to plantations was promoted by academic Judith Ajani in her...
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Tasmanian PS numbers have increased 25% between 2000-2008
“BUDGET-breaking” blowouts in public service numbers are destroying the financial position of the states and threaten economic recovery, new research has found....
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Millions Will Starve as Rich Nations Cut Food Aid Funding, Warns UN
Aid agencies fear global disaster as support for World Food Programme hits 20-year low. October 12, 2009 “The Guardian” — TENS of...
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Death throes of the Old Dragon and the woeful state of Tasmanian mainstream media …
Beseiged by declining ad revenue and readership, befuddled by the internet revolution Old Media leadership in Tasmania has looked firmly to its...
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Well Mr Crean, did you go into bat for Gunns?
My impeccable, highly-placed source, says that at the AFL Grand Final in Melbourne last month Minister for Trade Simon Crean buttonholed one...
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Trade in woodchips down 26 per cent
Global trade of wood chips down 26% in 2009 as pulpmills reduce production worldwide, reports Wood Resources International. The international financial crisis...
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In one Aird out the other
I attended a community forum meeting with Michael Aird, left, at the Beaconsfield forum on October 4th. When I first decided to...
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The Population Myth
People who claim that population growth is the big environmental issue are shifting the blame from the rich to the poor. Tell...
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Price rise welcome but the fight continues
Any increase in the price paid to dairy farmers is welcome and demonstrates to all stakeholders that no price is set in...
